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...about 100 of the 700 members of the 306th Battalion have gone missing in action. Of the rest, say the U.S. soldiers at the camp, 90% fail to show up on days of high tension. Those officers who have remained on the job--men like Raied, a former master sergeant in the old Iraqi army--say the bloody fighting that had gripped the country over the past month was a watershed; local people have turned against the U.S. and the ICDC. Morale has been shattered, and many Shi'ites, including members of the ICDC, have become hostile...
...last week by suicide bombers, killing 68 people. In Baghdad, police officers say they patrol only when they absolutely have to, and spend much of their time trying to avoid being connected to their U.S. employers. Many wear masks to hide their identities. "All the policemen are afraid," says Sergeant Walid Hani Hamid. "People think the Iraqi police are walking hand in hand with the Americans. We are forced to sneak back to our houses the way the mukhabarat did during Saddam's time...
Cambridge Police Department Sergeant John Fulkerson, who also testified on Friday, provided evidence to support the claims of Lynch and Grabau that Denner had solicited the media attention...
...trained Iraqi commandos--began debriding Fallujah of its guerrillas as part of Operation Vigilant Resolve. In the first five days of fighting alone, as many as 300 civilians died in block-to-block combat, according to doctors at Fallujah's main hospital. "It's 17th century tactics," says Staff Sergeant Michael Ventrone, a Marine inside Fallujah. "It's under siege...
...ghetto could be a world of three-dimensional, 360 insult," he discovers, "where no one had enough so they ruined what they had, and then came looking for yours." He learns to turn his hat around while patrolling dark stairwells--to minimize telltale reflections--and to expect a sergeant to touch a beat officer's shield after a winter patrol to make sure it's cold. He learns that the crackheads he keeps in line make more money panhandling than he does. He learns how to turn a criminal into a C.I.--a confidential informant--and how to break down...